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But why does not one same soul enter more than one body?
Because any second body must approach, if it might; but the first
has approached and received and keeps.
Are we to think that this second body, in keeping its soul with a
like care, is keeping the same soul as the first?
Why not: what difference is there? Merely some additions [from
the experiences of life, none in the soul itself].
We ask further why one soul in foot and hand and not one soul in
the distinct members of the universe.
Sensations no doubt differ from soul to soul but only as do the
conditions and experiences; this is difference not in the judging
principle but in the matters coming to judgement; the judge is
one and the same soul pronouncing upon various events, and these
not its own but belonging to a particular body; it is only as a
man pronounces simultaneously upon a pleasant sensation in his
finger and a pain in his head.
But why is not the soul in one man aware, then, of the judgement
passed by another?
Because it is a judgement made, not a state set up; besides, the
soul that has passed the judgement does not pronounce but simply
judges: similarly a man's sight does not report to his hearing,
though both have passed judgement; it is the reason above both
that reports, and this is a principle distinct from either.
Often, as it happens, reason does become aware of a verdict
formed in another reason and takes to itself an alien experience:
but this has been dealt with elsewhere.
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